The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit responsible for creating the universal standard of digital characters and numbers, is considering encoding “Hanifi Rohingya,” a writing system developed ...

It would allow the Rohingya to write emails, send texts and post on social media in their own language -- a major step for a people who had no written script until the 1980s.

Last June, in a major milestone, Hanifi Rohingya was incorporated into Unicode, the international standard for encoding characters and symbols on computers. For the 36-year-old, each project is a ...

However, most of them do not know how to read or write the script known as the Hanifi Rohingya. The script was included in a 2019 upgrade to the Unicode Standard, ...

For decades the Rohingya have been denied recognition in Myanmar but the persecuted minority is close to securing a crucial symbol of their identity -- their own unique digital alphabet.

For decades the Rohingya have been denied recognition in Myanmar but the persecuted minority is close to securing a crucial symbol of their identity – their own unique digital alphabet. The language ...